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[Joe Shlabotnik]

Joe Dimaggio, yes. He was also Bender.

Where have you gone, Bender Rodriguez
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you..

 

[upandaway]

I figured I'll contribute a bit from what I know, while the latest pages are still somewhat Zelda.
I haven't gone through the whole thread though so I don't know if it was said already..

Mako
Personality: At first glance, quiet
Least Favorite Thing: Having his glasses touched by strangers
"Mako is called the brains of the ship and the king of invention. He may look like a weakling, but his glasses give him keen eyesight, and he's unstoppable when mad. Not many know this, but he keeps a knife hidden in that thick book of his.

Now take a look at Shad from TP.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

CAPCOM is the abbreviation for the original company subsidiary called Capsule Computer. Nothing spectacular about that, but guess where the other syllables went...

SULEPUTER

though Wikipedia told me this too as I googled for "Suleputer" megaton none-the-less!

 

[EvilMario]

Straight from this thread...

THE DYING SOLDER OF OCARINA OF TIME!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D6XMKtjtvaM

I'm a little late, but.. this is amazing.

 

[iidesuyo]

Olrox, one of the boss enemies from Castlevania: Symphony of The Night, who has his own quarter in the castle...

...is based on the charakter of Count Orlok from the silent movie "Nosferatu". He's also called Orlok in the JP version.

The movie was supposed to be an adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Orlok being Dracula, but the studio did not get the rights back in 1921.

 

[joetachi]

You know what, Cubone's always bugged the hell out of me. How does its mother dying and it deciding to wear her skull make it an entirely different species? It makes no goddamn sense.

Its simply really Cubone has the bones of the dead mother and uses them for combat making it have a different fighting style than a normal Kangaskhan. The baby Kangaskhan probably gains the ability to evolve into from the bone or the cranium. Im taking this too seriously but it seems plausible since we know certain items or situations can change the out come of a pokemons evolution

 

[oracrest]

Olrox, one of the boss enemies from Castlevania.......

ooh, castlevania reference time! I always liked they did Orlok in Castlevania. that design is actually pretty acurate to Stoker's description of the man, moreso than the black caped slicked back hair that we know him as now.

Another boss, Scylla, is based off a Greco-Roman mythological character of the same name, from Homer's Odyssey.

although, my favorite Castlevania bit of trivia is that the "zombie" characters that you fight in the Colosseum of SOTN are the characters that you can play as in Castlevania 3. Nothing too obscure, but I always liked that they brought back that same group.

 

[Jet Grind Radio!]

Castlevania is teeming with mythological references.

 

[Little Green Yoda]

Possibly old, most probably a stretch...

...but doesn't the TWEWY logo look vaguely like an angel instead of 3 buildings?

 

[djtiesto]

Alright, here is one I learned about today and threw me in for a bit of a shock... everybody remembers LJN, right? Horrible NES games made off of licensed properties. And everybody knows Atlus of course... but, did you know that Atlus is rumored to have been responsible for a few early LJN titles, including Karate Kid? (and Jaws was developed by Westone of Wonder Boy fame).

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Blog:6#LJN_and...Atlus.3F has more info - basically LJN contracted some stuff out to Atlus, and it is believed Atlus further contracted games out, i.e. to Westone. I find this pretty mindblowing, considering how much I revile those old LJN games, and how much I love SMT/Persona. Didn't even know that LJN contracted the work out to Japanese developers either, I thought it was all in-house or American devs.

 

[Princess Skittles]

(and Jaws was developed by Westone of Wonder Boy fame).

 

[Boss Doggie]

Fairly new, probably known, but still.

Engineer in TF2 only has one glove right?

 

[Johann]

You know what, Cubone's always bugged the hell out of me. How does its mother dying and it deciding to wear her skull make it an entirely different species? It makes no goddamn sense.

Let's not go into the whole 'how are Ghost Pokemon created' conundrum.

 

[Sagitario]

I figured I'll contribute a bit from what I know, while the latest pages are still somewhat Zelda.
I haven't gone through the whole thread though so I don't know if it was said already..



Now take a look at Shad from TP.

So... many... little... details... [and polish] ...
I really like this kind of things in games...

 

[OMG Aero]

I don't think the whole "Cubone wears its mother's skull" is actually true. I mean, you can breed a Marowak in the daycare and you still get a normal Cubone.
Is the skull thing actually mentioned anywhere outside of the Pokedex? Because the Pokedex does make a lot of shit up.

 

[Dragoon X Omega]

The thing blown my mind is the Legend of Zelda manual.

1) It shows Link in the cave with the old man. Picking which weapon to pick.

2) It's actually from the beta version with the Japanese text blacked out.

3) Here's the close up picture in the American manual.

 

[bjork]

This is an interesting thread, but there's no really "mind-blowing" anything lately, just factoids. Come on guys!

 

[Brobzoid]

Kinda badass if they let you play through the game with a banana instead of a sword.

 

[MNC]

Fairly new, probably known, but still.

Engineer in TF2 only has one glove right?

Is this an actual hat? :lol

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

I figured I'll contribute a bit from what I know, while the latest pages are still somewhat Zelda.
I haven't gone through the whole thread though so I don't know if it was said already..

*Stuff about Mako*

Now take a look at Shad from TP.

:O

This is like finding out that the dude who runs the hookshot challenge in Castle Town was basically Tingle in the WW timeline.

 

[Diablohead]

Is this an actual hat? :lol

Yep added in the new classless update.

I never realised that glove was the same as an engi's, some reason I thought it was a spare pyro glove. Mind blown.

 

[Version 3.0]

This is an interesting thread, but there's no really "mind-blowing" anything lately, just factoids. Come on guys!

I thought this was common knowledge, but I mentioned it in passing to my friend this weekend and it blew his mind, so...

In Super Mario Bros. you can become Fire Mario while you're small. It's a glitch; to do it you touch Bowser and the axe at the same time at the end of any fire level. If you do it right, you won't shrink back to small Mario, but the effect of mushrooms will reverse and the next mushroom will make you shrink. Then you can get a Fire Flower to become small Fire Mario.

edit: found a (not very good) youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIgTFfsL9OA

 

[HUELEN10]

This may or may not be a stretch, YOU decide!
Pokemon Diamond Sandgem Town Night
At Seventeen

Obviously the tempo is different, and the way the song is song might seem odd as the lyrics don't fully flow with the music, but I think it's there.

Thoughts on this GAF?

If that doesn't do it, there is always this...

 

[Marvie_3]

Another one from Twilight Princess:

........................ Telma ........... and her cat ............ Louise

Holy crap. Missed this one earlier.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Yep added in the new classless update.

I never realised that glove was the same as an engi's, some reason I thought it was a spare pyro glove. Mind blown.

One could argue that they're married... Hah! So Spy is cheating with Pyro who is actually Engineer's wife and Scout's mom? XD

 

[Baconbitz]

Possibly old, most probably a stretch...

...but doesn't the TWEWY logo look vaguely like an angel instead of 3 buildings?

OMG I'm not the only one.

On another note has anyone said in this thread what Sonic was origionally?

 

[Neki]

Possibly old, most probably a stretch...

...but doesn't the TWEWY logo look vaguely like an angel instead of 3 buildings?

Awesome, didn't see that until now.

 

[trinest]

I don't see it.

 

[hampig]

I don't see it.

Me either

 

[morningbus]

2 outter buildings are wings, the middle building is the head.

 

[Boss Doggie]

True, but didn't really work for me. The buildings are too far off to look like wings. =/

 

[VegaShinra]

This may or may not be a stretch, YOU decide!
Pokemon Diamond Sandgem Town Night
At Seventeen

Obviously the tempo is different, and the way the song is song might seem odd as the lyrics don't fully flow with the music, but I think it's there.

Thoughts on this GAF?

If that doesn't do it, there is always this...

That's kinda like the whole Chrono Trigger Robo's Theme and Never Gonna Give You Up sounding similar.

 

[sits]

This may or may not be a stretch, YOU decide!
Pokemon Diamond Sandgem Town Night
At Seventeen

I KNEW the Pokémon tune sounded familiar! I haven't heard At Seventeen in years...

 

[Prime Blue]

I suggest a title change to Videogame facts that used to blow your mind, now with more far-fetched speculation.

 

[Johann]

OMG I'm not the only one.

On another note has anyone said in this thread what Sonic was origionally?

There is a laundry list of these things for TWEWY

For example:

Spoiler

ROYGBIV'D

...and the stones in the center are increasing by increments of one.

 

[Kilrogg]

I don't understand the first spoiler.

 

[unreon]

I don't understand the first spoiler.

ROYGBIV = red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. Colours of the rainbow in order of decreasing wavelength.

But indigo isn't exactly a colour, so it's now dropped for the most part.

Newton, who found that white light is a rainbow spectra of colours, didn't like the idea of six colour bands and added indigo to make seven. Six is apparently the sign of the devil.

 

[OMG Aero]

I don't understand the first spoiler.

They are the colours of the rainbow.

This may or may not be a stretch, YOU decide!
Pokemon Diamond Sandgem Town Night
At Seventeen

Obviously the tempo is different, and the way the song is song might seem odd as the lyrics don't fully flow with the music, but I think it's there.

Thoughts on this GAF?

The songs sound a bit similar but it's not really mind blowing that two songs sound alike.

 

[theluma]

Fairly new, probably known, but still.

Engineer in TF2 only has one glove right?

OMG I just got that :lol

Awesome

 

[DrFunk]

The Q-Sound logo sounds different in many (but not all) Capcom arcade games:

listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsEN0wjo2dA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwq00r6pmJE

I never noticed it before, but the tone, length, pitch vary from game to game

 

[Blizzard]

Random comment of the day, probably unintentional:

Mareep is a yellow sheep.

Mareep backwards is Pee Ram.

 

[wondermega]

what Sonic was originally? wasn't he a rabbit named "Feel," with ears that would grab enemies or something? Then I believe they scratched a lot of that and held some internal contest at SOJ (Sega of Japan) for "design our new mascot," got lots of crab characters and things - someone submitted the standard "sonic with attitude look on his face, legs crossed, pointing finger up" and that was the winner. They took that as impetus and made a game out of it. the "rabbit" thing went on to become Ristar (which I never played), but it's not hard to see since a lot of the menus/UI stuff looks very familiar to the early sonic games.

BTW I haven't read/thought about this stuff in several years, so pardon me if I'd got a couple of these details a bit foggy/mixed-up. Before the Sonic Maniacs go jumping all over me!

 

[RomanticHeroX]

This may or may not be a stretch, YOU decide!
Pokemon Diamond Sandgem Town Night
At Seventeen

Obviously the tempo is different, and the way the song is song might seem odd as the lyrics don't fully flow with the music, but I think it's there.

Thoughts on this GAF?

If that doesn't do it, there is always this...

That song comes into my head every time I'm in Sandgem.

 

[Killing_Joke]

This is really old, but i remember being mind blown when i found out Twisted Metal Black was all in sweet tooths head.

 

[Ogrekiller]

wrong thread

 

[HUELEN10]

Claus and Lucas are just anagrams of the each other.

 

[Monroeski]

Random comment of the day, probably unintentional:

Mareep is a yellow sheep.

Mareep backwards is Pee Ram.

:lol

 

[IrishNinja]

I wanna say i caught this prior, but itd not be so mind-blowing if i had. nice.

 

[OnPoint]

It was one of my favorite moments of that game BECAUSE it was those three characters. I hope people caught it lol

 

[Scrow]

I'm a little late, but.. this is amazing.

it's kinda funny for me seeing so many people surprised by this. i came across him on my first playthrough.